Ebola and Yellow Fever

Why are people so worried about ebola? It’s only in Ohio and Texas and who cares about them anyway. Okay, if you have family there, you might care, a little. But still, I would be worried if I lived in the northern part or middle of Africa.

People tend to just group Africa together, while in reality, Africa is a big continent with many countries, not just one big country. People also tend to think that if something is in one part of Africa, then it’s in all of Africa, but really that’s not the case. It’s only in a very small part of Africa.

Still, people are very worried. I only know one person who knows a person who has ebola. If you think I’m trying to tell you that this is not an issue, that is not my purpose. My purpose is to calm your nerves and tell you that they are being very careful. As you fly back from Africa, they require you to fly through one of the five major airports and go through a very meticulous and careful screening.

Ebola is under control in America, but not in Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guiana. The total number of cases in these countries is about 8,400, but the total number of deaths is about half that. If you think about the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1853, this is barely anything. In 1853, about 7, 850 people died, about 10% of the city, This all happened in ONE city, which quite significant, thinking how the number of deaths for Ebola is spread across three countries.

In my seventh grade class, the big joke when someone is absent is that they have Ebola. Even though Ebola is not nearly as significant as you may have thought before reading this article, it is still a serious problem. The one big difference between now and 1853 other than the different diseases is that that epidemic is over and this one isn’t. Remember to hope for the best and hopefully this disease will end soon, but you never know. Someday this will only be another big epidemic in history without any feeling attached to it. It will just be a date and statics.

The "Theory" of Evolution

Apes. So many people think that they are stupid enough to come from a hairy and gross animal. Well I don’t. Many of people do though. Have you heard of the cell theory? It says that life comes from life. A long time ago, people thought that life came from nonliving things, but that’s crazy. They thought that because a flower would grow out of the soil and and soil was not living so life MUST come from NONliving things. People thought some crazy things and still do.

In the 1950s, people thought that communism would take over the world. That scare was so bad that there was a black list and anyone who was on it, didn’t have a job, family, or friends. A politician searched doctors and all kinds of people to see if they ever made a little comment about communism and then he put them on there. That is just so wrong. I Can't even imagine someone being so evil that they would make people go into extreme poverty. So much of the world is already at that point so why make other people so poor and hungry. That is just so beyond my understanding. Just so we’re on the same page, communism is NOT going to take over the world.

Back to the point, why would people believe in such crazy things. I can’t imagine Christopher Columbus's fear as he sailed across the world and thought that at any moment he might fall off and never be seen again.

We didn’t come from apes. At least I didn’t. Maybe the male species did. Okay, that was a joke, no one came from hairy, smelly animals. We don’t even have very much evidence to support that claim, if it can even be considered a claim. The most complete skeleton of the in between of an ape and a human is not nearly complete. Actually, quite the opposite of complete. My point is evolution is not proved by a half finished skeleton.

How could the first bacteria come from nothing? I don’t know, but I do know that spontaneous generation did not happen in the beginning of time. I hope you know that too, now that you have read this post.

"Global Cooling"

So many people hate global warming, yet so many of them still drive cars. They still buy things from China made in factories that pollute the atmosphere. But...why? Because cars, factory made items, etc. make life easier and that’s all we care about in the U. S. of A. How easy and efficient can something be? For example, how many people make their own pie crusts? I do, but not many other people. It’s much cleaner, faster, and easier to just buy it already in the pan. We don’t even care if homemade pie crusts tastes better. Processed foods, pesticides, and freeways are some of the main reasons one in every 68 children in America have autism. Next time you buy processed foods, think about that, especially if your pregnant. Also, make sure to take plenty of vitamins while pregnant. Anyway, moving on, why do so many people worry about global warming? Climate change is a more accurate term, but no, the ice on the North Pole is melting, everyone just waste your money on stopping this problem that doesn’t exist. The whole earth has to be warming for Global Warming to be a proper name, not just the northern hemisphere. Southern hemisphere, we don’t care about you. It doesn't even seem to matter that the south pole is gaining more ice. But the climate is always changing. Remember that when you think of climate change as a problem. The ice age wasn’t called Global Cooling. I find it very interesting that the didn’t blame the apes for that one. Not that humans came from apes anyway, but that’s a different topic. I’ll talk about that some other day.